The english register of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford : written about 1450 / edited with an introduction by Andrew Clark.

same place of the one partie, and sir Iohn of seynt Gyle of Oxenford of the other parte, the thursday next afore the fest of seynt kenelme, the fyfty yere of the reigne of kyng henry the sone of kyng Iohn, that is to sey, that the said abbesse and couent yaf, graunted, and confermed with this present couenaunte writyng, to the said Iohn iij. acris of arable lond with ther per|tynentis in the tylthe of wythorpte [At the dissolution, 1540, Wycrofte, 14 acres was valued at 1s. 4d. an acre: Monast. iv. 370.] , with the mansion, tyftis of roddis, thorptis or croftis, and medis, at wyke, the whiche wyke somtyme they held of the burgeys of Oxenford, as the same Iohn held somtyme of them: of the which acris, ij. lyen in the vtter south stede of ther said tylthe, and the thirde acre a lytell toward the north (ij. acris and j. half liyng bitwene hit and the forsaid two acris): To be had and to be hold, to hym also longe as he lived, of them and ther successours, frely quyetly in good state and in pease, in weyes in pathes in medis and pasturis and fysshyngis, with alle fredoms and fre customes, yeldyng therof yerely to them and to ther successours al so longe as he lived ij. shillings of sterlyngis at Mighelmasse for all seculer seruyce, exaccion, and demaund, or ony maner help, and þat þe same Iohn shold have fre entre and goyng-out with his owne bestis to be fedde in there medys nye lying about þere londe [folio 104] after the first heye and the seconde [The Latin is: 'post primum fenum et secundum careatum'; which may mean 'after carrying-off the prime-math and the after-math,' taking secundum as adjective. If secundum is taken as a preposition, it would be 'after mowing the first hay-crop and after carting it.'] careatum or cariyng. And the seid Emme Bluet abbesse and Couent of Godestow warantiȝed and defended all the forsaid londes with all the pertynentis and fredoms to the said Iohn also longe as he lyved ayenst all men and women. So that aftir the decesse of the seid Iohn, all the forsaid lond with the mansion, tyftis of twyggis, thorptis, medis, fedyngis, placis, fysshe-weris, and all other thyngis longyng to the said lond, shold holy turne ayene to them and to there successours, without ony contradiccion or lette of ony man or of ony men, into ther owne vse. And that this writyng conuencionall all the daies of the seid Iohn shold be sure & cetera, euerych ther seales to others writyng & cetera.